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...fighting more fires, but by cutting the homeowners' premiums by adding new equipment through five grants, Capt. KevinLancaster said. The gear has improved the fire department's rating with the Insurance Services Office. Increasing the fire...

...collected from fire fees from residents go to the operation and maintenance of equipment and the facility," said Capt. KevinLancaster, a department spokesman. So when the department saw that about 800 properties were to be developed within its district...

...destroyed in an April tornado. Some of the department's fire trucks also were damaged. Silver Bluff Assistant Chief KevinLancaster announced the grant Wednesday, saying it would help his department purchase a $10,000 thermal imaging camera as...

...written for the deployment of green technologies, sustainable design and alternate energy," department spokesman KevinLancaster said in an e-mail. "To this end, the (Silver Bluff) department contacted Savannah River National Laboratory...

...pulled out of the garage before the tornado even hit. It was the building that was gone instead.Assistant Chief KevinLancaster was on a road trip with his son to Tennessee. He heard Aiken County's dispatch over the Internet when they checked...

...Ellenton. Beech Island has loaned a fire engine to Silver Bluff, which still has a substation off Silver Bluff Road. KevinLancaster, an assistant chief and spokesman for Silver Bluff, said it could be three to six months before his department is...

...out of the concession stand and drifted over the visiting stands. Several emergency units responded to the fire. KevinLancaster, assistant chief for the Silver Bluff Volunteer Fire Department, said there were no injuries. "What happened there...

...she did not know how many of this group also paid their fire fees. The problem with past collections, said Capt. KevinLancaster of the Silver Bluff Volunteer Fire Department, is that residents have paid property taxes late and have never known...